Roman Minin

Roman Minin (1981) is a Ukrainian artist and photographer who also works with sculptures, installations, and street art. Despite the traditionality of monumental art, the artist experiments with modern technologies: he works in the UV printing technique, creates NFT works, and dreams that artificial intelligence will continue to create works using his original technique. Minin's plots are about the reinterpretation of the identity of his home, Donbas, filling the region with positive meanings and the dream of future restoration and reconstruction - he embodies this through a wealth of symbols, graphic expressiveness, detail, and experiments with techniques. The artist participated in many group exhibitions and art festivals, organized the Street Art Festival in Kharkiv, and headed the "Isolation in Urban Space" program at the Donetsk Center for Contemporary Art "Isolation" in 2012. Minin's works were exhibited in key art spaces of Ukraine - from Mystetskyi Arsenal and Pinchuk Art Center to the Odesa Art Museum; they were sold at Phillips and Sotheby's auctions.

In the work "Infinite Industry", Minin feels to the smallest detail and immerses the viewer in the image of the Donetsk region stuck in history in the context of the eleventh year of the war, which does not leave this territory. This cardboard bas-relief features portraits of two men in a swirl of industrial markers, both projected as architectural structures and joined by an infinity symbol. The first in his circle of infinity is on fire, smoking; his protective helmet is broken, and military planes are flying overhead, tears in his eyes. The second is that the young structure is in a state of reconstruction. In this work, Donbas is stuck in the inextricable repetition of the "miner's paradise" between a terrible reality and a big dream.